One topic that The World We Made lacks is sports. How will sports be affected in the future as we strive to live more sustainably? A major issue with sports in the future is travelling, especially by plane. Leagues and associations constantly try to increase their popularity, and have done…
Response to “The World We Made”
I find the “Miracle Cures?” chapter of The World We Made to be a mixed bag, with some elements that seem consistent with one another and others that seem like oversights. I think the author made a wise decision to center medical advancements around developments in genomics and gene therapy,…
The Lack of Us
There are many qualities in which describe and are part of the culture in which we live in today. Tn the novel The World We Made many of these characteristics were not present in descibing the futuristic world of 2050. To begin with, and probably the most important aspect of life, was…
What happened to all the refugees?
Jonathan Porritt envisions life in 2050 in his book The World We Made, also laying out a potential pathway to this sustainable way of life for all in the process. Porritt mentions futuristic updates to numerous aspects of everyday life including Health, Transportation and Water amongst others. One of the…
The Gender Gap in the World We Made
The World We Made illustrated the optimistic future I have been hoping for out of this class. While Pacific Edge and Ecotopia both imagine a healthier Earth, neither novel feels accessible. The modern world differs so fundamentally from the novels, especially regarding capitalism, that use of the novels as a model…
Paris, COP23, Policy etc.
The Paris Agreement signed by 196 nations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change deals with greenhouse gas emission mitigation, adaptation and finance. It is essentially the world agreeing on a path forward. However, after reading the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, hearing the June 2017 announcement that the U.S.…
THEA
If this question is being asked, it means that current legislation is not strong or effective enough. I would agree, for the following reasons: Too often environmental laws such as CWA, ESA, NEPA and MMPA are viewed as the antithesis of the everyday interests of Americans; they suppress economic development,…
Environmental Karma
I would design a policy concerning distribution of responsibility. Economic policies like taxes have been applied to adjust demand/supply so as to reflect externalies. Although I only know basic economic principles, I presume a problems of such policies. People who may adjust their behaviors under such policies are totally passive…
Food Policy
If I could design a policy initiative, it would have to relate to food production and food waste. On a global scale, I think it would be a good idea to enforce certain limits to the amount of food wasted—for example, only a certain percentage of a country’s total food…
Global policy because global climate change
If I had to design a policy initiative, I would try to include it as much as I can in the foundational texts and laws of that country. I agree with Suzuki when he says that “we need to enshrine environmental protection in our Constitution”: we need to make the…